Improvement in steam-engine governors



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICEo JOHN H. WAIT, OF PORTSMOUTH, OHIO.

Specification forming part ofA Letters Patent No. 51,764, dated December 26, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. WAI'L, of the city of Portsmouth, in the county of Scioto and State of Ohio, have invented an Improved Governor for Steam-Engines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference .being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, and in which- Figure lis an elevation of an engine with my improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a detached view of theregulating bar hereinafter described and its connections. Fig. 3 is a side View of the parts shown in Fig. 2, partly in section.

My invention relates to a novel combination and arrangement of devices, the operation of which permits the flow of steam to the cylinder to be so regulated as to insure a uniform speed in the motion of the machinery.

In order that others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may be enabled to fully understand and use the same, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation with reference to the accompanying drawings.

A is the cylinder of an ordinary steam-e11- gine, in the steam-chest of which is the valve a., which regulates the supply of steam to the cylinder. The valve a is connected with the rod b bythe usual rod, crank-shaft, and lever, so that a horizontal reciprocatory motion will be. communicated from one rod to the other. The rod b is pivoted to a movable box, c, which is notched upon its two inner faces, as shown, so that it may readily take hold ofthe notched pendulous bnr d, which passes through said box c. The bar d is attached at its upper end to a yoke, e, which is pivoted at its extremities toa rod,f, and vibrating bars g g. The rod f is connected with a cam, h, upon the dri ving-shaft.

The notched pendulous bar d is connected with a cam, i, upon the main shaft by means of a rod, lc. l This rod k is pivoted to the lower end of the pendulous bar d at l.

To the movable box c is pivoted a rod, m; the upper end of which plays freely in the stirrup a. The rod m is pressed upward by a spiral spring, o. To the crossbar at the upper end of the stirrup is attached centrally the vertical rod p, toothed at the point Q, so as to be operated by the governors o" r. Attached to the cross-bar at the upper end vof the stirrup n are two rods, s s, secured by 'wheels u u. Thepinion t plays freely up and down upon the feathered shaft o, which through suitable gearing receives motion from the pulley w. Motion is transmitted from the main shaft through the belt x, which passes around the pulleys to y. The vibrating bars g g swing in an adjustable frame, z, secured stationarily in any desired position to the post z.

Operation: While the machinery is Working at low speed the governors 1', d uring'their revolution, droop or hang low, as shown in black, Fig. 1. AThe movable box.c stands at a high point on the notched pendulous bar d, which, bringing the cam-rodfand rod bin linefgives the greatest play to the steam-valve a. The faster 'the engine runs the higher the governors 1^ rise, depressing, through the medium of the rods mp s, the movable box c, which places the rod b more nearly in linewith the cam-rod lr, and since the cam-rod k is attached to a smaller eccentric, z', than is the cam-rod f, a vcry small play of the valve a is produced. Under the depressed condition ofthe box c the position ofthe several parts is represented'in red in Fig. 1. Hence it is manifest that the proximity' ofthe box c to the rodf or to the rod k determines the extent ofmovement of the valve a, for when the box c is n'ear the lower end ot' the pendulous bar d extent of motion of the box c, and hence of the rod b, corresponds with that ofthe rod k, which, heilig connected to the smaller cam z', has a more limited movement than the rodf, which is connected to the larger cam 7L. i Having thus described my invention, the followingis whatIclaim as new herein' and desire to secure by Letters Patent: v

l. 'lhe combination and arrangement ot' the rod b, movable box o, notched pendulous bar d, rodsfand k, and-cams h i, substantially as and for the purpose explained.

2. The combination and arrangement of the governors r r, series of cogs u u u, stirrup n, spiral spring o, and rod m, as and for the purpose set forth.

JOHN H. WAIT. Attest;

J As. W. NEUMAN, GEO. O. NEUMAN. 

